MIGRATION and MIGRANTS

In the developed countries as America, England and Germany there are many refugees or migrants who goes these countries to find a job. They aim to have a good job and good life. They dream about having a high quality of life in these countries. However, nothing is as easy as they think.

In the film, there is a agency that is established by a two women. On of the women has no job because she tried to have her right against to harrasment of her boss. Thus, she wanted to have her own job to find a job for migrants. She does everything as legal ways. There was a man from Iraq, he had no visa so she said to him, “no papers, no work.” After, these things she tried to help them with giving false papers as madeup and fake passaports. The jobs that, immigrants were very dangerous. So, there were many accidents for workers.

These kinds of workers do not have health insurance and even visa and permission for work. There is some citizenships who have their rights can use them for earning money. This is the issue. And also, the woman has problem. She had harrasment and after that she has fired from her job. This is another problem in the film. Problems have been occured because of the other problems. It is kind of a building whose base is not well-shaped.

In this film, there is an Iraqian man and his family. They came to London as a refugee but they have not got English citizenship yet. They leave their homeland because they were selling a wrong type of books that critisise the government. They tried to escape from bad situation at their land however they also faced with bad situations in their new land.

Migrations and having citizenship are problematic issues. Refugees or asylum seeker are noncitizens in the country. These kind of people do not have any legal papers. Thus, finding job for these people before having formal citizenship or permission for work as a refugee, is not a legal attitude. However, in the capitalist system some people who love money can use them.

To sum up, every issues have connection with other issues. Every result of problems have close connection with the causes of other problems. Having a job without permission is an outcome of the other problems. Capitalistic order can be the cause of the many problems. According to reports of World Bank, the half of the world population, nearly 3 billion people live with less than 2 $ and 1,5 billion people live with less then 1$. Consequently, the main and significant cause of the inequality of expenditure is Capitalist System. Thus, the citizens do not share their limited incomes with the migrants. The legal citizens have concerns about sharing the income with migrants and this concerns make them to think that everything will go worse if they share the money with them. Thus, they behave against the migrants which is the cause of the discrimination. On the other hand, from the side of migrants, this is the cause of not being integrated to the new country as migrant. Everything follows each other as an issue. It seems as steps of ladder.

RESOURCES

Kapitalizm ve Açlık, Retrieved from http://www.marksist.com/GUN/KapitalizmVeAclik.htm

REFUGEES

Countries select the refugees whom they can accept. The refugee identification is politically important. [1] Because,identifying as a refugee can eliminate many problems for people. If they are caught from police without having any papers about being refugee that means they are illegal coming people. After that, they are send to their country again that is not a good situation for them because of the strict administration of their country.

When people g to another country firstly they should ask for being a refugee to the ofice of United Nations. If United Nation accept them, they can be a refugee to any county that accepts refugees. On the other hand, some of them are not accepted as a refugee. In the film that is called as “For a Moment, Freedom”, both of these situations can be observed. In these cases, these people face with many difficulties as physical, economical and psychological problems which can be seen obviously in the film as for the man firing himself. The other people as the owners and the workers of the hotel do not behave in a bad way to the refugees.

Arendt have an idea about being thrown out of the humanity-being stateless deprives one of the essence of humanity. [2] In the film, at the bus two Turkish men beat two men who are not speaking Turkish and are people who want to be paper based refugee. They are behaved as not human. This case is out of humanity and makes people wanting power more. It turns everything as Darwin's rule as the most powerful can win.

The situation of these people is so bad in addition to that others make everything more difficult for them. However, humanitarianism is based on engaging other people in relationships of empathy and in this way demonstrating one's common humanity that is ethics. Thus, it depends on characters of people which can be shaped with education.

On the other hand, at the application steps if people get “no” as an answer, that is the worst situation. Thus, they are sent to their countries back. They try to leave their country because of bad situations as strict administration and war. If they have gone again to there, they can be killed in their countries. As a better situation, they can be imprisoned.

To sum up, the consequenses of being refugee is very destructive as physical, economical and psychological situation. At the beginning to go without papers need money. After that, they have severe trip to the country where they want to go firstly. And then, they need to make an application to be a refugee. They are in a countrythat they have not known. The waiting period for teh response of the application is the hardest part for their psychology. In addition to that, having their days in that country is also destructive for their psychology. In my opinion, countries do not have borders and if people want to go another country to live there, they should go there especially when there is a war in their country. People should have freedom to go everywhere else to live.

RESOURCES

[1] Feldman, Ilana. "Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and

Political Identification in Gaza." Cultural Anthropology 22.1 (2007): 129-69.

[2] Ticktin, Miriam, 2006. “Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of

Humanitarianism in France.” American Ethnologist 33(1): 33-49.

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